Rates and Equilibria of Organic Reactions : As Treated by Statistical, Thermodynamic and Extrathermodynamic Methods

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leffler, John E.

Contributor:

Grunwald, Ernest, 1923-2002

Series:

Dover Books on Chemistry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chemical equilibrium.

Chemical kinetics.

Chemistry, Organic.

Local Subjects:

Chemical equilibrium.

Chemical kinetics.

Chemistry, Organic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (848 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

: Dover Publications, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<DIV>Graduate-level text stresses extrathermodynamic approach to quantitative prediction and constructs a logical framework that encompasses and classifies all known extrathermodynamic relationships. Numerous figures and tables. Author and Subject Indexes.</DIV>

Contents:

""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Apologia""; ""Preface""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Glossary of Symbols""; ""I - Equilibrium from the Statistical Point of View""; ""EQUILIBRIUM AS AN EXERCISE IN PROBABILITY""; ""FACTORS ENTERING THE PROBABILITY CALCULATION""; ""THE BOLTZMANN DISTRIBUTION""; ""THE PARTITION FUNCTION""; ""2 - Equilibrium and the Gibbs Free Energy""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""EQUILIBRIUM IN DILUTE SYSTEMS""; ""ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS""; ""SOME CHEMICAL OPERATORS""; ""THE ANALYSIS OF ACTIVITY COEFFICIENTS AND SOLVENT STABILIZATIONS IN TERMS OF INTERACTION COEFFICIENTS""

""CHEMICAL MODELS AND THE FORMAL NATURE OF THE SOLUTE SPECIES""""INTERPRETATION OF FREE ENERGY QUANTITIES WHEN THE FORMAL SOLUTE CONSISTS OF SUBSPECIES""; ""THE PARTIAL MOLAR FREE ENERGIES OF ISOMERIC SPECIES""; ""THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE THERMODYNAMIC AND STATISTICAL MECHANICAL TREATMENTS OF EQUILIBRIUM""; ""3 - Free Energy, Enthalpy, and Entropy""; ""ENTHALPY""; ""Enthalpy and the Zero-Point Energy""; ""ENTROPY""; ""MEDIUM AND SUBSTITUENT EFFECTS ON THE PARTIAL MOLAR ENTHALPY AND ENTROPY""; ""SOME SOLVENT EFFECT MODELS""; ""SOME SUBSTITUENT EFFECT MODELS""

""4 - Concerning Rates of Reaction""""THE COLLISION THEORY""; ""THE TRANSITION STATE THEORY""; ""DYNAMIC REVERSIBILITY AND REFLECTABILITY""; ""THE TUNNELING EFFECT""; ""5 - Rates of Interconversion of Subspecies""; ""RELAXATION PROCESSES""; ""WIDTHS OF SPECTRAL LINES""; ""THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A COLLISION""; ""THE EFFECT OF AN ENCOUNTER""; ""RE-EVALUATION OF THE TRANSITION-STATE THEORY""; ""THE INTERCONVERSION OF ROTAMERS""; ""RATE CONSTANTS FOR MIXTURES OF ISOMERS""; ""THE LIFETIMES OF SOLVATION COMPLEXES""; ""REACTIONS LEADING TO PRODUCTS IN EXCITED STATES""

""6 - Theoretical Introduction to Extrathermodynamic Relationships""""EXTRATHERMODYNAMIC RELATIONSHIPS IN THE GAS PHASE""; ""ADDITIVITY RULES""; ""A FORMAL METHOD FOR GENERATING EXTRATHERMODYNAMIC RELATIONSHIPS""; ""A FORMAL EXTRATHERMODIfNAMIC TREATMENT OF SOLVATION EFFECTS""; ""THE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF EXTRATHERMO. DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIPS""; ""RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RATE AND EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS""; ""SELECTIVITY VERSUS REACTIVITY""; ""EXTRATHERMODYNAMIC RELATIONSHIPS INVOLVING PHYSICAL PROPERTIES""; ""7 - Extrathermodynamic Free Energy Relationships. I. Substituent Effects""

""PARAMETRIC EQUATIONS MAKING EXPLICIT ALLOWANCE FOR MULTIPLE SOLVATION MECHANISMS""

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ISBN:

9780486151427

0486151425

9781621986430

1621986438

OCLC:

868966330